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Re:Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over ... by jodrellblank on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @10:56AM (#27907160)
> "I don't see anywhere people are saying it was actually SWAT or any kind of "raid"."

The article uses this picture: https://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2019/03/20...

Google reverse image search for that suggests a search term of "fbi swat team" and first result is a wikipedia link to "FBI Special Weapons and Tactics Teams". The picture is from the Wikipedia page on swatting which says it is "an FBI SWAT team during training". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting

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Re:Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over ... by unishark on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @11:58PM (#27915186)
Yes it's clearly not a photo of the actual event. Are you complaining that you were misled? or are you suggesting "techbase" uses of stock photos is more authoritative than their own primary sources which I just summarized for you?
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Re:Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over ... by jodrellblank on Friday July 23, 2021 @07:45AM (#27929610)
You said "I don't see anywhere people are saying it was actually SWAT" and I'm pointing you to where the article implies actual SWAT was involved, with their use of a photo of an actual SWAT team.
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